Arabic transcription
Arabic transcription gives you a first draft of an Arabic recording, in Arabic script, as text or subtitles.
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Be ready to correct it. Modern Standard Arabic, as heard on the news or in a lecture, comes out best. Spoken dialects are harder, and they're where most of the correcting will be. The text is in Arabic script, as plain text or as SRT or VTT subtitles.
Questions
Does it work for Egyptian or Gulf Arabic?
It tries, but dialects usually come out worse than standard Arabic. Test a short clip first.
Do the subtitles show right to left?
The text is saved in Arabic script, and players that support Arabic display it right to left. SRT and VTT both carry it.
Does it translate Arabic into English?
Yes: translate Arabic to English audio. This page keeps the text in Arabic.
About Arabic recordings
- Script
- Arabic script, written right to left, with letters that join up within a word.
- Spoken in
- The Middle East and North Africa, from Morocco and Algeria to Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
- Subtitle tip
- Subtitles in a right-to-left script need a UTF-8 file and a player that supports right-to-left text.